Does This Prove That Many Christians Are Hoodwinked?

Question

For decades we've had these televagelists who are always speaking of 'tithing,' and portraying God as a slot machine. Put a dime in his mouth and he'll dispense $10.00 in return. Many of these Televangelists have been exposed as crooks and conmen over the years; (air conditioned dog houses, $27,000 marble toilets, mutil-million dollar jets and mansions, $25.00 hookers in the back of limos), yet their congregation and benefactors still support these people and justify their actions. Is this proof that many Christians are hoodwinked or brainwashed, and does God really need our money?

Answer 1

If a preacher spends most of his time begging for money,then apparently God isnt blessing his ministry or he isnt being a good steward of what God gives him.

As far as God needing money,God owns everything,He is the Creator and Father of all yet He only requires 10 % .

We will all stand before God and be judged by what we do while we are on this Earth.And preachers will get a double whammy if they decieve their congregation.

So even though they may be living in luxury now,they will be suffering God`s Wrath if they are profitting themselves and not God.

Answer 2

It isn't that God needs your money but that he would like for you to be obedient. Did you ever get rewarded for some things your parents had ask you to do?

There are many false Prophets in the world even God told us that. He said even the very elect would be fooled. So it's up to each of us to have a right relationship with the Lord and listen to Him.

Also remember that man is not perfect but a true Christian that has stumbled or fell will quickly humble their self before the Lord and ask for forgiveness to get back in Gods grace. They will be even more stronger in the faith after going through such a humbling experience. So what Satan meant for evil God will turn it around for His Glory!

Answer 3

there are a number of that do. It sounds to me such as you're addressing this question to no longer all Christians, yet to a decide on minority who've very slender perspectives approximately Bible literalness and what evolution relatively is. i became born a Christian, grew up as a Christian for many of my youth, and have lived as a Christian all my grownup existence. a robust seventy 5% of my buddies IRL are Christian. Neither they nor I unquestionably have any subject acknowledging the reality in technology. the rationalization is, we comprehend that the previous testomony debts of how God created the universe and existence are parables, that weren't in any respect meant to be examine as literal historic previous. We comprehend that the entire evolution / creationism debate is a non-subject; it outcomes no longer something in our salvation. We comprehend that God created the universe and existence utilising the super Bang and abiogenesis ... possibly. If and once I get to heaven and discover out that one among the two creation thoughts in Genesis became a literal historic recording, then i'm going to assert, "Oh? Cool." and that's all. All that gets destroyed by technology is the superstition -- that the Bible is a mystical great-textbook that takes under consideration each little thing and something you will ever decide to ask approximately something. it relatively is a superstition i could decide to work out bite the airborne dirt and dust, by using fact then shall we manage the Bible the way it became meant to be dealt with: one source of revelation from God, one which asks far greater questions than it solutions.

Answer 4

Why have such a negative outlook on this?

The church i go to accept this kind of method and i want you to know something.

There is a massive (or was a massive) percentage of depressed teens, people who were disabled or have had a a bad name due to the way they were brought up - church was not just about preaching - it gave them the chance to find solid ground every week and with the money that the church is getting we can now afford more seats in the hall, a staff group double than what we had so we now have councellers and children in bad areas can can catch a bus that does a loop around that area and drops them off at church coz there drop beat parents are high off drugs.

All of these services have happened through peoples generosity and we feel every sunday that its our chance to do what we can for people in need.

We even have a mission counceller and group that can now go off to sri lanka and preach and feed the hungry coz we used our spare $10 bucks that we take for granted.

You call him a slot machine - getting 50 kids off the street a month we call a miracle - and its because we WANTED to



Who ever thought this was stupid can get ****** the term "hoodwinked" is just as screwed up when was the last time you did anything good for people in need!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Above all else God looks to our hearts in all that we do. If we tithe with the expectation of greater wealth from God down the road, we will be sorely disappointed. If, on the other hand, we give out of thanks for God;s love and provision, the Lord will bless us in abundance. And He gives to us, not for our own comfort, but so we can better help others in need.



God does not need our money. He has everything as it is. And the filthy rich televangelists will be dealt with severely by Jesus at the White Throne Judgment. I'm not even sure they'll make it to the Bema Seat Judgment of the saints. I can hear Jesus now ... "away from me you evildoers. I never knew you!"

Answer 6

I think it's more likely that they're determined to believe despite all evidence.



They recognize that people are fallable while still believing that their God isn't. So they go on doing what they think God wants them to do, even if it turns out their money or their faith was misplaced. To them, they did the right thing by giving, and it was up to others to do the right thing in turn. If they didn't, then that's not their problem.



The alternative is to begin to question everything they've ever believed and to ask themselves if their lives have any purpose, if they've been wasting their time, etc. It must be easier just to overlook the problems and go on believing.

Answer 7

Some of them are. I've always been very distrustful of televangelists and have never and will never give them one dime. I prefer to give to my local church because I know where it is going and exactly how it is spent. I approve of the use or I wouldn't give. God doesn't need our money, but I like to give because combined with the gifts of others, I know I'm making a small difference in my community. We have a breakfast program for the needy and work with Habitat for Humanity.

Answer 8

All this proves is that some people have been more hoodwinked than others.



Believing a book of mythological fairy tales in the first place is also being hoodwinked.



Religions from the beginning have not been about honouring a god but more about controlling people. All those books, bibles, qurans, etc that men claim are directly from a god, are not from a god, but written by men, and for the purposes of men. The sooner people realise this, the better off they will be.

Answer 9

Sure. Many non-Christians are hoodwinked by state lotteries, too. Many people are extremely gullible. Almost seems as if we were designed for a better world than we're in.

Answer 10

god doesn't need money?



wtf? he sure has gotten a lot of it, i figured he must really need it. although, now that you mention it, i never have seen him at the bank.



huh. all i've seen are religions pushing their agendas and shouting that their god is better than the god who lives in the church next door. maybe god is working a pyramid scheme.



or somebody is.

Answer 11

Yes, they are hood-winked. No, God doesn't need our money. Where in the Bible does it say to give the church all that money? That's man's tradition.



Do you know what God does with people like that?

Romans 1:28

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"



He doesn't correct them. He's allows them to sink deeper and deeper. I believe those are the same people (yes, followers too) who will cry Lord, Lord, but Jesus will say...

Matthew 7:23

"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

Answer 12

If the men you speak of tried these kinds of schemes in the secular world they'd be in jail. Amen to your post.

Answer 13

They're human. Humans are often ignorant idiots.



...have you not heard of the church of Atheism? Many other Atheists consider those people "hoodwinked".



It also proves what the user above me stated. Many just don't read their Bibles. They'd rather throw their money at someone who enlightens them.

Answer 14

The ones that listen to TV evangelists are.

Answer 15

Wow televanglists get steep discounts on hookers.

Answer 16

Yes

Answer 17

No, you are generalizing



This proves that people don't read their Bibles to be able to spot the false prophets out there.

Answer 18

It's evidence that people forgive and have faith in people against the odds.

Answer 19

I saw that movie yesterday.



But really, churches are pretty extravagant. So yes, I believe your right.



some of em anyway.

Answer 20

This and SO many other factors is ample proof of christian gullibility.

Answer 21

No, but the fact that you wrote this question proves you are in dire need of Jesus Christ.